A change from the norm

For most of my trips, I generally post abbreviated versions of what went on and keep it mainly to pictures. Although I've been sadly slacking off on that the past few months (sorry!) I do a longer write up for people on my Travel mailing list- mostly family and friends who start getting bitchy and gripey when I don't give them all the dirty details of where I've been and what I've been doing. Posting this on my livejournal is a bit of a change for me, but I've spent so much time editing it and tweaking it and it is a favorite travel story of mine, they I figured, why the hell not?

So folks, even though this is fairly long as all my travel write ups tend to be, but this is how I want to tell my story, so here goes.

( let me tell you a story about a horse... )